Using IPFS Cluster Service for Global IPFS Data Persistence

How to install and configure IPFS’s cluster service across your IPFS network

Automatic replication and pinning across your IPFS network

IPFS Cluster Service, a less documented tool in the IPFS family, is available to use as a means of automatically replicating and pinning content throughout your IPFS network of nodes. It runs alongside IPFS as a separate service and needs to be installed on all the IPFS peers that make your cluster. This article acts as a guide of the installation and configuration process, as well as an introduction to managing content on your cluster.

An IPFS cluster is a powerful tool that gives you a simple means of distributing content globally, via IPFS, with an easy to use CLI. The project homepage can be found at https://cluster.ipfs.io, and the Github project here.

Now, there are two methods of deploying an IPFS Cluster Service. Which method you favour will depend on your deployment methods. They are as follows:

• Method 1: To configure your entire cluster peerset and list them in the configuration file of your initial cluster node. Deploying a cluster service on this node will then sync the remaining peerset nodes to the cluster…